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HORTICULTURE 



July 24, 1920 



MUST ABANDON IMPORTATIONS. 



Arnold Arboretum Gives Up Bringing 

 in New Plants at Present. 



The fact Is being brought home to 

 the public that the drastic rulings of 

 the Federal Horticultural Board at 

 Washington are bound to interfere 

 seriously with the propress of horticul- 

 ture in this country. The facts which 

 were brought out at the horticultural 

 conference in New York recently are 

 being given wide circulation. The 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 for example is now sending out bulle- 

 tins giving in full some of the state- 

 ments made at that conference. The 

 one by Prof. Charles S. Sargent, 

 Director of the Arnold Arboretum, is 

 of especial Importance. This state- 

 ment is reproduced in full as follows: 



The Arnold Arboretum is a museum 

 of living plants in which Harvard Uni- 

 versity has agreed by contract to grow 

 and display every tree and shrub able 

 to support the New England climate. 

 In order to carry out this contract the 

 University has been importing plants 

 and seeds from other scientific institu- 

 tions and from commercial nurseries 

 since 1874; and for forty years has 

 been carrying on explorations in all 

 parts of North America and in .Japan. 

 China, Korea, Manchuria and Siberia. 

 These explorations have been under- 

 taken for the purpose of introducing 

 into this country trees and other use- 

 ful plants which had been unknown 

 before the establishment of the Arbor- 

 etum. 



The aim of the Arboretum is to in- 

 crease the knowledge of trees; its 

 museum of living plants growing in 

 Massachusetts Is only one of its 

 methods for accomplishing this pur- 

 pose. It is interested in increasing the 

 knowledge of plants in all parts of the 

 United States and in all foreign coun- 

 tries. Much of its work of exploration 

 has been undertaken for the purpose 

 of bringing into this country and into 

 Europe trees which can succeed only 

 in the Pacific states. Ijouisiana, Flor- 

 ida, or the milder parts of Europe. 

 For the Arboretum there is no foreign 

 country. 



The Arboretum is not charged with 

 having introduced into this country 

 any serious plant disease or dangerous 

 insect on the many thousand plants 

 which have been Imported, often with 

 soil at their roots, from even.- country 

 of the northern hemisphere, or on any 

 of the millions of seedlings which it 

 has raised and distributed. During its 

 entire existence plants have come to 

 the Arboretum from foreign countries 



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except during the autumn and winter 

 of 1919-20. The Arboretum desired to 

 import from Europe a few plants in 

 the autumn of 1919 and received per- 

 mission from the Federal Horticultural 

 Board to do so on condition that they 

 were sent first to Washington for in- 

 spection and disinfection. It was im- 

 possible to arrange for the inspection 

 of these plants at Boston; and the 

 Arboretum, having had unfortunate ex- 

 perience with early importations 

 which had been sent to Washington for 

 inspection by agents of the Federal 

 Horticultural Board, has decided to 

 give up entirely importing plants and 

 seeds until some modification is made 

 In the methods of the Horticultural 

 Board. As the Arboretum has been 

 active and successful, especially In the 

 last twenty years, in the introduction 

 of new plants into the United States 

 it is believed that its inability to con- 

 tinue this work will be a serious blow 



to horticultural progress in the United 

 States. 



The managers of the Arboretum, in 

 common with every intelligent and 

 public-spirited citizen of the United 

 States, believe in the exclusion of 

 plant disease and insects destructive 

 to plants; they believe that the 

 methods and rulings of the Horticul- 

 tural Board can be modified and im- 

 proved so that the desired results can 

 be obtained without subjecting imr 

 ported plants to the dangers and de- 

 lays which it is impossible for them to 

 escape under the existing regulations 

 and methods of the Federal Horticul- 

 tural Board. Officers of the govern- 

 ment realize that these methods and 

 regulations cause serious delays and 

 the unnecessary destruction of plants, 

 and agree with many importers that 

 these delays and dangers can be re- 

 duced by the establishment of inspec- 

 tion stations at ports of entry and by 



